When we bought this house, it was move-in ready. Ha! We spent the next seven years getting it 'ready' for the life we live in it....

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Pass-Through

One day, oh, about 6 years ago, I was walking around in our kitchen trying to figure out something new I could do to that room. I first thought about moving the fridge against a different wall, but that wouldn't work, I decided, because there that would have put the fridge up against a baseboard heater. Then I thought about tearing down the wall between the kitchen and the living room, but I quickly discounted that idea because it would entail messing with electrical wires and such - plus that wall could be a load-bearing wall, I further opined. Then it hit me: We could put a pass-through on that one wall, the wall between the kitchen and the living room.

It's a good thing this pass-through idea was a good one because shortly after I suggested the idea to Bill I heard his reciprocating saw buzzing and went in to investigate and found a gaping hole in the wall!

He soon had that hole trimmed with beautiful barn wood, though, and I heaved a sigh of relief: That heretofore dark corner of the kitchen was transformed by the pass-through of light from the living room.

Oh, and a bonus: People in the kitchen could now see into the living room. Cool!

My Dad - one of our biggest cheerleaders in re to any remodeling we did - came to see us one day shortly after the pass-through went in, and he suggested we take pictures and use the pass-through as a sort of frame. So that's what we did.

But this project was not over yet: I had the idea to add some gingerbread at the top of the new opening. After I came up with a pattern, Bill insisted that there was NO WAY he could cut such an intricate pattern in hard wood.

The next day when I got home from work, Bill presented me with a gift: He'd rough-cut the design in wood, and it was lovely.

Now it was my turn to do some work: I got busy with my rotary tool, shaping and smoothing tho rough-cut edges of the trim.

4 comments:

Exactly, Dinu! That was my first thought: Reduce that whole section of wall to rubble and we could walk through it! But then the complication of heater and electrical and such overtook my thinking and thus I backed off that idea. If I did anything Moore at this juncture, I would - are you ready for this? - take out the wall between the living room and basement steps, thus creating open stairway to said basement! I have NOT presented that idea to my husband, though, as I'm not sure it is not ill-advised!!!!

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When we bought our home at the tail end of 2004, everything in it was functional but outdated. So we started updating it, making it our own. This blog is about the journey from outdated to re-worked, redone, redecorated and more: It's a blog about how we put together a home that we like, and one that even looks good when it's dirty!!